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AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS

AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $401,678 to it, the largest being AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ($164,470). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$719k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$402k
Net assets
$5.4M
8/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Amarillo Botanical Gardens does

Mission

To inspire people to connect with plants through education, experience, and enjoyment

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing a botanical garden, youth and adult education

    $646,604 spent$967,874 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $646,604.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($493k) Expenses 100 ($807k) Net assets 100 ($5.8M)2019 Revenue 116 ($574k) Expenses 68 ($552k) Net assets 99 ($5.7M)2020 Revenue 91 ($449k) Expenses 81 ($653k) Net assets 99 ($5.7M)2021 Revenue 111 ($549k) Expenses 83 ($667k) Net assets 99 ($5.7M)2022 Revenue 138 ($681k) Expenses 96 ($776k) Net assets 92 ($5.3M)2024 Revenue 146 ($719k) Expenses 118 ($950k) Net assets 93 ($5.4M)
201820192020202120222024
Revenue (146)Expenses (118)Net assets (93)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $5.8M to $5.3M (−8%).

$5.8M
$5.7M
$5.7M
$5.8M
$5.3M
$5.4M
201820192020202120222024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

13% of AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$314k
’18
$22k
’19
−$204k
’20
−$118k
’21
−$95k
’22
−$232k
’24
0.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Greg Lusk

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

201820192020202120222024
Listed232016161313
Joined·+3+1+10+0·
No longer listed·65103·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $42k → $41k.

3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

67% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS.

41%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 29% · 2019 50% · 2020 45% · 2021 44% · 2022 77% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

60% of AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

100% of AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS's grant income comes from Texas funders.

MN
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS's revenue grew 46% between 2018 and 2024.

Operating margin−32% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 13%Fundraising 8%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

75%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS?
AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $401,678 to it, the largest being AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ($164,470). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $401,678 in grants to AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS?
AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $164,470 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing